The Associate Medical Physicist position plays an integral role in the investigation and evaluation of equipment and ensures new treatment imaging techniques. Provides medical physics coverage as deemed appropriate to the subspecialty (i.e., Radiation Therapy, Cardiac Cath.). Oversees acceptance testing of new or renovated medical equipment and imaging network. Cooperates and adheres to regulatory agencies (state and federal) in demonstrating compliance with applicable rules and recommendations. Develops and maintains contacts with physicists in other practices and maintains professional working relationships with the pertinent department Directors and Medical Directors.
Job Responsibilities
- Develops and maintains contacts with physicists in other practices. Confers with physicians throughout Inova systems regarding patient dosages, equipment evaluation, and quality assurance.
- Cooperates and adheres to regulatory agencies (state and federal) in demonstrating compliance with applicable rules and recommendations.
- Confers with vendors regarding equipment used in practice (i.e., linear accelerators, MRI, CT, etc.) concerning purchase specifications, acceptance rules, and regulations.
- Discusses with patients and other members of the public radiation exposure with medical procedures.
- Confers with physicians in subspecialties regarding all patient uses of ionizing radiation.
- Provides Medical Physics coverage as deemed appropriate to the subspecialty (i.e., Radiation Therapy, Cardiac Cath.).
- Confers with engineering concerning radiation shield design for all areas of the hospital that utilize ionizing radiation.
- Oversees acceptance testing of new or renovated medical equipment and imaging network.
- Performs calculations and measurements to ensure new treatment imaging techniques and to investigate in greater detail established techniques.
- Reviews new calibration protocols and verifies by experiment and computation the impact they will have on clinical applications.
- Investigates and evaluates new equipment and improvements in existing equipment to reduce costs and downtime while increasing efficiency and accuracy for their application.
- Intercompares data with other radiation therapy institutions; stays abreast of clinical and dosimetric literature in subspecialty.
- Attends any hospital-assigned committees (i.e., Radiation Safety Committee).
- Maintains professional working relationships with the pertinent Department Directors and Medical Directors; develops and maintains contacts with physicists in other practices.
- May perform additional duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
- With time-in-work experience, is eligible to take the American Board of Radiology certification.
- Master's Degree in Physical Science.
- Applicant is eligible to submit to become a VA state inspector in the subject specialty.
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